https://adamazl.github.io/homelab/tags/monitoring/Recent content in Monitoring on The Home LabHugoen-usSun, 15 Mar 2026 00:37:20 +1300https://adamazl.github.io/homelab/posts/grafana-prometheus-monitoring/Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://adamazl.github.io/homelab/posts/grafana-prometheus-monitoring/<h2 id="why-monitor-your-homelab">Why Monitor Your Homelab?</h2> <p>Without monitoring, you find out about problems when something stops working. With it, you see a disk filling up days before it causes an outage, catch a VM chewing CPU in the middle of the night, or notice your UPS battery health declining. It turns reactive firefighting into proactive maintenance.</p> <p>The Prometheus + Grafana stack is the industry standard for this and runs comfortably on modest hardware. My monitoring stack runs in Docker on a dedicated LXC container and uses less than 1 GB RAM.</p>